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Passing AWAY.

The constitution of the confederate
states was signed by forty-nine dele
gates, thirty-seven of whom are dead.
The president survives, but Vice
president Stephens died four years ago.
OF three who held the portfolio of
state in the cabinet, all are dead of
five secretaries of war, all; of two secre-
taries of the treasury, one; of four
attorney-generals, two, and the one
secretary of the navy; while the sole
postmaster-general, Mr.. Reagan, is
still very much alive, as he proved by
taking the stump for prohibition, in the
recent Texas canvass, and arguing
against the declaration on the other
side of his old chief. OF thirteen COM
missioners accredited to represent the
confederacy abroad ten are dead.
There were five men who bore rank as
full generals in the army, of whom
Johnston and Beauregard alone sur
vive; twenty-one acknowledgements,
of whom eleven are dead; one hundred
maior-generals, of whom fifty-five are
dead, and four hundred eighty brigader-
generals, of whom Colonel Jones thinks
that considerably more than half are
dead.
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which he described as having very
large round glasses larger than silver
dolar-and he assert ed that by placing
the plates in the bottom of hat or
other deep receptacle, like wooden
grain measure, he could put on those
spectacles and, looking down upon the
plates, the engraved characters were
all translated into good plain English,
and he had only to read it off and have
it recorded by copyist. Smith and
Rigdon labored diligently to secure con-
verts, and before long it was announced
that the Gold Bible was to be
published in book form. Alvah Strong,
then proprietor of the Wayne Sentinel,
and afterward of the Rochester Demo
crdt, took the contract to print and bind
5000 copies for IS ,000-Martin Harris,
a farmer, mortgaging his farm for
that amount to raise the funds for
the work-and business soon began in
earnest. Joe, with his lieutenant, Rig
don, had a board shanty erected in
remote field, which no human being
was allowed to enter except these two
worthless, and from this primitive study
all the manuscript for the publica-
ton of the Gold Bible was brought to
the printing-oilice. AS the office was
in the third story of the same block,
and directly over the store where l
was employed, l was allowed to come
upstairs and read from the proofs as
much as l chose; though in fact l never
became very greatly interested in the
work. The publication was pushed with
spirit, but until it was completed not a
copy was allowed to leave the office,
but every volume was packed in an
upper room, and the pile they made
struck me at the time and has since
been wildly in my mind as comparing
in size and shape with cord of wood,
and | called it cord of Mormon Bibles.
Not long after the publication was COM
pleted they began their preparations
for a removal, and ere long the parties,
with their converts, packed up all their
belongings and left for Kirkland, Ohio"
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Smuggling.

Every passenger on steamer arriv-
ing at an American port is obliged to
declare under oath either that he has
no dutiable articles or to specify what
those articles are. There is no escape
from this declaration, and such particu-
lar instructions are furnished passen-
gers that no one can plead ignorance.
Any alternative to a clear and full state
ment involves violation of law and
both the crime and the sin of perjury.
That is the hard fact in the matter, after
all sophistries and sentimentalities and
jokes have been swept aside. The
tariff may be all wrong; it may be true
that it is hateful and unjust; the values
involved may be trifling; the govern
ment may afford the loss better than
the tourist; the examination of bag
gage may be an impertinence; it may
be shame first to require passenger
to make an affidavit and then to ignore
it; other people who are eminent for
social standing and piety may squeeze
through the customs without paying
duty; all these assertions may be quite
true. And yet the ugly fact remains
that if passenger makes an affidavit
that he has no dutiable goods in his
trunks when he has, he lies and he
breaks the law. Nor does it help mat
tiers bit if the he is a she. Unfortu-
nately neither the United States stat
utes nor the tables of the moral law are
gallant enough to discriminate between
the sexes in this matter. And truth
obliges us to say that for petty snug
Cling the ladies outvie the gentlemen.
1t is absolutely astonishing to see how
callous the feminine conscience often
is in this respect. Women who would
ordinarily scorn to stoop to lie or a
cheat will seek to swindle the govern
ment in the meanest and wickedest
fashion, and will excuse themselves by
some miserable subterfuge which is too
much to assume the most logical brain
can put forward seriously-Ne,o York
Commercial.
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A Dog of the Regiment.

In the way of "reminiscences, Colonel
Emerson of Auburn, Maine, tells this
story of famous dog that went to war
with the Tenth Maine Regiment from
Portsmouth: "The dog belonged to
Nathan Jones, stable-keeper there,
and went out with his master and came
back at the end of three months. He
jumped into the car occupied by Cap
tain Emerson's company of the Tenth
Maine as it passed through Portsmouth
on its way to the front, and the men
concealed him beneath the seats. Tele-
grams demanding the dogs release
were received at Boston, at New York
and at Baltimore, but the regiment had
adopted the Portsmouth canine and it
would have required more than a tele-
gram to effect his release. He served
his time with the Tenth and came
home with that regiment two years later.
When the company reached Portland
two men came from Portsmouth to re-
claim the dog. Two of our boys took
the dog across country to North Auburn
by way of Gray Corner, and he re-
NAMED at North Auburn till the
Twenty-ninth was organized, when he
went to the front again with that regi-
ment, with which he met his death at
Sabine Crossroads. He would get
terribly excited in a battle, and when
the bullets would strike the ground he
would rush and bark and gnaw saw
agely at the earth"
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by local applications, as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear
There is only one way to cure deaf
ness, and that is by constitutional
remedies. Deafness is caused by an
inhamed condition of the mucus lining
of the eustachian tube. When this
tube gets inhamed you have rum
bling sound or imperfect hearing, and
when it is entirely closed deafness is
the result, and unless the Inflammation
can be taken out and this tube restored
to its normal condition hearing will be
destroyed forever. Nine cases out of
ten are caused by catarrh, which is
nothing but an inhamed condition of
the mucus surfaces.
We will give one hundred dollars for
any case of deafness Caused by catarrh)
that we cannot cure by taking Halls
Catarrh Cure. Send for circular, free.
f. j. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o.
q Sold by druggists at seventy-fve
cents.
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COnyersing Mt Sea.

No incident of the sea voyage is
more interesting than that of the meet
ing of ships and their conversing with
colors. They ask and answer questions
with grave courtesy, and tell one
another as much as they choose to i'm
part in language as unmistakable as
Yes and No. A true marine picture
may be found in a sailing-ship making
out the tip of white wing glistening
upon the tumultuous sea-ine far down
upon her bow. AS the time passes this
luminous star-like point rises and
shapes itself into sail. Other spaces
of canvas follow; cloud-like, the beau
tiful structure scars, bringing with it as
it rises white radiance, as though the
whole had risen out of the wet silver of
the sea. Finally the structure of gal
liant ship lies toy-like upon the distant
ocean-line, and then, with the aid of
glass, spot of color may be seen, radi-
ant at point where it is most easily
read. She is speaking the other vessel,
and in a short time the conversation
between the two distant fabrics is pro-
ceeding in good earnest. Each one
tells the other her name, where she is
DOullu W anu Wutlt Sllc 10 lIOlll, uON
many days she is out, and so forth.
These are matters of grave interest in
the deep solitudes of the ocean. There
are a thousand miles of sea between
their figure-heads and their homes;
days may have elapsed since the mo-
notonous liquid girdle has been broken
by sail, the WEAKNESS of the voyage
presses heavily upon the captain and
crew, and there is small wonder that
there should be interest and even eX-
element in this encounter of stran-
ger upon the wide, watery waste, and
in this exchange of talk by the butter
fly symbols of flags. Again, a slow,
solemn journeying ship, signaling a
swift mail-steamer, makes one perceive
how much there is in the sea language
of colOrs. The steamer will be home
in few days; she can reckon upon her
time as if she were an eXpress-train.
But the old wagon curtseying upon her
quarter may occupy month or six
weeks in making her port.-London
Telegraph.
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An Officers Claim.

Captain George Mitchell of the Sec
ond Artillery has filed claim for
longevity pay, which, if allowed, will
involve the government to the extent
of at least 81 900, 900 in the payment of
similar claims. Captain Mitchell claims
that he should be credited with service
as a volunteer officer of the army in
computing his longevity pay. The SUI
preme court has decided in the Morton
case that service at the military and
naval academies is service in the army
or navy, and should therefore be
reckoned in computing longevity.
Under this ruling large amount of
money has been paid out. 1t is held
by lawyers generally that if the years
spent at the academies AS students are
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-10-26

AN important element of the success
of Hoods Sarsaparilla is the fact that
every purchaser receives fair equiva-
lent for his money. The familiar
headline, 100 Doses One Dollar"
stolen by imitators, is original with and
true only of Hoods Sarsaparilla. This
can easily be proven by any one who
desires to test the matter For real
economy buy only Hoods Sarsaparilla.
Sold by all druggists,
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PE IL rs
House for. sale.

The subscriber offers for sale her residence in the
village of Cabot, W. The buildings ON the premises
att pensan'y oolten a'u n"at tnu business paIa oi
one.half stories high and in good repair. There Is
also good horse barn, and about one acre of good
land, which will be sold at bargain to some one
who wants to buy the same Purchasers are re-
ferred to Oscar Morrill, and Hiram Wells of Cabot,
the subscriber at Barre, VI. CYNTHIA X. DAVIS
Barre, VT, October TO- 1851
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advertisements.
Advertisements.
SCR
TWenty-EiSht Years!
A Scaly, Itching Skin Disease,
with Endless Suffering,
Cured by Cuticura
Remedies.

If had known of the CuTIcuRA REMEDIES
twenty-eight years ago II would have saved me
a!0O00 1.-TWO hundred dollars and an immense
amount of suffering. My disease Qsoriasis) COM
menced on my head in spot not larger than cent.
1t spread rapidly all over my body and got under
my nails. The scales would drop of of me all the
time aud my suffering was endless ana without re-
lief. one thousand dollars would not tempt me to
have this disease over again, | am poor man, hut
feel rich to he relieved of what some of the doctors
said was leprOsy, some rngworm, psoriasis, etc !
took and Sarsaparillas over one year ana
u half but no cure went to two or three doctors
and no cure cannot praise the CuTICURA RENE
DIES too much. They have made my skin as clear
and free from scales haby's. All ! used
of them was three boxes of CUTlCuRA, ana three
bottles of CUTICURA REsoLVENr and two cakes OF
CUTICURA SOAR. If you had been here and said you
would have cured me for S20000 you would have had
the money. looked like the picture In your book
of Psoriasis picture number two How to cure SKIN
Diseases % but am rs clear as any person ever
was. Through force of habit | rub my hands over
my arms and legs to scratch once in awhile hut 10
no purpose. | am all we'll scratched twenty-eight
years and it got to he kind of second nature to me
thank you thousand times. Anything more that
you want to know write me, or any one who reads
this may write to me- and will answer IT, ..
DENNIS DOWNING.
WATERBURY VT, January 10th, 1887.
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" To me-" says Longfellow, a SER
mon is no sermon in which cannot
hear the heart beat"
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Catarrhal Dangers.

To be freed from the dangers of suifocation while
lying down; to breathe freely sleep soundly and un
disturbed to rise refreshed head clear brain active
and free from pain or ache to know that no poison
GUS putrd matter dehles the breath and rots away
the delicate machinery of smell taste and hearing;
to feel that the system does not through its veins
and arteries suck up the poison that is sure to un
derminc and destroy is indeed blessing beyond all
other human enioyments. To purchase immunity
from such fate should be the object of all afflicted.
But those who have tried many remedies and physi
clans despair of relief or cure
SANFoRD's RADICAL CURE meets every phase of
Catarrh from simple head cold to the most loath-
and destructive stages. 1t is local and consti-
tutional. Instant in relieving, permanent in curing,
safe, economical and never-failing
SANFoRDs RADICAL CURE consists of one bottle
of the RADICAL CURE, one box CATARRHAL SOL
VENT and one IMPROVED INHALER. all wrapped in
package with treatise and directions, and sold
by all druggists for Sl0O.
POTTER DRUG Il CHEMICAL Co.. BOSTON.
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THERE was never truly original
thought produced by any one but Cod
ReU. Peter s. Menzies.
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Psoriasis Eczema, letter Rng-worm, Lichen,
Pruritus, Sca Head, Milk Crust, Dandrut Bar
bers', Bakers, Grocers and Washerwonans Itch,
and every species of Itching Burning, Scaly, Pmply
IIumors of the skin and Scalp and Blood, with Loss
of Hair, positively cured by CuT1CuRA, the great
skin Cure and CUT1CURA SOAP, an exquisite skin
Beautier, externally, and CUTtCURA RESoLNENr,
the new Blood Purifier, internally when physicians
and all other remedies fail
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pIMPLES. blackheads, chapped and oily skin pre-
] iiW vented by CUTICURA INDICATED SOAP.
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Mistellanp.
The Parting. =

My heart is sad and wac, mither,
To leave my native land
Its bonnie glens its hills sac blue,
Its memory-hallowed strand,
The friends loved sac long and weel,
The hearts that feel for me;
But, mther, more than all grieve
At leaving thee.
The hand that saft my bed has made,
When was sick and sair,
win carefully my pillow lay
And baud my head nae MAR;
The cen that slecpessy could watch
When was In my pain
win ne'er for me from night to dawn
Fer wake again
There's a Kindness in the ward, mther,
And kindness will meet
But name can he what thou hast been,
Names praise can be so sweet;
Nae ither e'er can love thy son
WI love akin to thine,
And name can love thee, mither, dear,
with love like mine
III keep thee in my nmost soul
Until the day dee
For saft, saft is my mither's hand,
And kindly is her e'e;
And when Gods spirits far away
To him my soul shall bear,
My deepest JOY will he to meet
My mither there.
: The author Of the above poem Robert Nicoll
las a young Scotch poet who died in 1897, at tn,
arly age of twenty-four. He wrote many beautiful
oems, which have not been collected and published
book form, as they deserve. Nicoll was for q
me editor of the Leeds Times. His poems were al
ublished in Edinburgh before he was twenty-five
ears old
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-10-26

How much he knew of the human
heart who first called God our Father
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Sold everywhere. Price: CUTICURA, fifty cents
SOAR twenty five cents; REsOLN ENr, 81. Prepared
by the POTTER DRUG AND CHEMICAL Co, Boston,
Mass.
~ Send for How to Cure Skin Diseases" sixty
-four pages fifty illustrations and one hundred test-
monias.
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Pettis, Bassett&Co.
A DESPERATE SHOT.
A Negro Rough Wounded While Trying to
Shoot all officer.

A thousand people who had been observing
labor's holiday were trying to get out of the Ex-
position building at 10 o'clock last night when
Thomas Hamilton, a Fort Wayne-avenue black
smith, drew a 41-caliber revolver and fred
shot at the head of John Banks, notorious col
ored man. who was attempting to escape from
patrolman John Farrell The ball peeled the
flesh off of one side of Banks's head,
and then passed between number of men and
women and into the wall near where the ticket
agent stood, without hurting anyone else.
Patrolman Farrell went to tho Exposition
building at o'clock with warrant for Banks's
arrest for assault and battery. He was not we'll
acquainted with the man, and he called on Ham
ilton, whom he knew well, to assist him in
finding him. Hamilton saw Banks standing
with several other colored in the alcove
betw cen the ticket Office and the entrance. and
Pointed him out to Farrell The officer
went up and told Banks he had warrant
for him. Banks remarked that he couldn't be
taken by any officer, and struck at Farrell.
who grabbed him. AS he did so Banks drew
revolver. A hand-to-hnnd scuffie for tho weap-
On began, and when Hamilton saw that Banks
was In danger OF shooting the officer he ran up
and, aiming his weapon at Banks head, fired.
There was panic among the crowd
Tor moment, during which Banks was
carried outside. In moment it was reported
that Banks had been killed by o white man. and
several hundred colored people who were pres
snt made rush for the door, determined upon
having the man who did the shooting. Patrol
men Long and Richards near the doors,
and seeing the danger to which Hamilton was
being subjected. hurried him out of the crowd
aud down back street to avoid the crowd
In order to have him safe from danger they
walked hin TO the No s. engine-house on Sixth
street from where he was sent to the police
station. He was charged with shooting with
intend to kill. Mr.. Hamilton says that he did
not intend to shoot Banks. He saw that Farrell
in danger OF being hurt and he pulled
his revolver for the purpose of frightening
Banks. 1t was a self-cocker ard went off acci-
dentally. Mr.. Hamilton resides at No. $50 East
St. Joe street. and has always been regarded as
a good citizen. Barks's wound is not serious.
While Farrell was scuffing with Banks, and be-
fore Hamilton drew his revolver. several colored
men attempted TO assist Banks in escaping, and
Farrell hit several times over the head.
One of those who interfered was Ed. Burris, and
he was locked up for assault and battery.
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Are You Goinp

FALL style hats at "Seators Hat Store" %
North Pennsylvania street
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DENIS0N HOTEL,

INDIA
Has been completely refitted, refurnshed and re-
opened under the new management of George o.
Taylor 81 Co.. and presents to the travelling pub
lie the following claims of superiority:
CENTRALLY LOCATED.
The location is central ard convenient to the
shopping. the courts. the theaters, and the hotel
may be reached by taking any street at the
west end of the Union Depot, or by Frank Birds
transfer line for % cents.
MODERN In CONSTRUCTION
The building is new. modern and perfect in it's
construction, the Office large and connected by
quiet reading-room; the corridors are WIDE per-
ventilated and completely furnished: the dining
hall the sequal of any in any city, and all per-
fectly lighted. the New Denison being the only
hotel in the world lighted with the large incan-
descent electric light the sample-rooms are
knowledged to be the best in the city; the service
and table are simply unsurpassed.
POPULAR PRICES.
The rates have been reduced and only
So CO. So 3d. So 90 and So so per day, according to
rooms required and length of stay.
AMPLE PARLORS FOR BUSINESS MEETINGS.
The large parlors of the New Denison. three
in number, we'll adapted and literally offer
ed to the patrons and friends OF the hotel for
business meetings.
POPULAR RESORT FOR BUSINESS MEN,
The central location of the New Denison aud
its patronage by the leading railroad and
prominent attorneys and business men of the
country has made it a popular resort for the bus
mess men of the city, and the most desirable
place for anyone desiring to make business ac-
quaintances in the city to stop.
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Excursion to Niagara Falls via the Decline

SEPTEMBER o.
Excursion tickets at rate of So. 90 to Niagara
and 81. 80 to Chautauoua lake and return are
now on sale at all Decline ticket Offices Tick
cts will be good going on special train leaving
Indianapolis a. 6:30 P. NJ. Tuesday. Sept 6,
1887, and returning on all regular trains up to
and including Sept IL. This will be the last
chance of the season to visit Niagara at such
low rate. and we would advise every body to take
advantage of it. The Decline is the short
and quick line to Niagara Falls and all points
East. Secure tickets and sleeping car berths of
your r. r. agent at No Bates House, 1881
South Illinois street. Union Depot and Mass.
ave. depot, Indianapolis L. G. PECK.
Dist Pass. Agent.
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To Old Point Comfort. Washington, Baltimore
Philadelphia or New York on that popular ex-
cursion over the Kankakee line (Big A. and
picturesque Chesapeake & Ohio railway? II you
are going this most enjoyable trip You should
come or write to US at once. if you want sleeping
car accommodations. that they may be reserved
for you. The people 60 on regular trains, not on
dangerous excursion trains
j. Fl. MARTIN, D. P. A.
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Brenneke's Dancing Academy.

Seventh year. Now open for the reception of
pupils. An early application is desirable from
those who wish to join classes at the academy.
or parties anticipating formation of special
classes. Terms of tuition and additional in
formation given on personal application Acad-
envy over Pfafins music store, S2k North Penn
sylvania street. Apply from to P.
D. B. BRENNEKE.
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Cheap Rate to Cincinnati.

So great has been the success of the great
spectacle, Rome Under Nero" that it has been
continued until Sept. IL, when it will positively
close. In the meantime the kankakee line big
Al will continue the sale of round-trip tickets to
Cincinnati at S., including admission to Rome
ITndav Naro
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He Knows Hnw-

Gentlemen who appreciate neatly fitting and
artstcally made garments will patronIze Norb.
Land graf, fashionable cutter, 80 North Illinois
street, Y. NJ G. A. building.
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The Rensselaer, Natural-Gas Company.

The Rensselaer, Natural-Gas Company.
The Rensselaer, Natural-Gas and Oil Company
was Incorporated yesterday. The capital stock
is 100000, and the directors David Movies,
Addison Parkison, Simon P. Thompson. Edwin
P. Hammond William A Rinehart Abraham
Leopold. Val Seib Deloss Thompson and EN-
met L. Holingsworth.